SJSH offers a clear alternative to the publicly funded education system. We provide both standard classes in Scholars’ Hall and focused support classes in St. Jude’s to match each student’s needs. Our St. Jude’s classes deliver targeted instruction to build skills and address learning difficulties, with the long-term goal of transitioning students into—and ensuring success in—our Scholars’ Hall classes as they’re ready.
St. Jude’s: A Mentor Academy
St. Jude’s Mentor School welcomes students who are presently not achieving to their intellectual potential but could be if they received the necessary help. St. Jude’s Mentor School is designed to be a temporary alternative to the publicly funded system for students, diagnosed and undiagnosed, who experience i.e. specific or general learning disabilities; dyslexia; dysgraphia; dyscalculia; dyspraxia; language processing; central auditory/visual processing; cognitive processing; memory; executive functioning; non-verbal learning; specific or general anxiety; ADD/ADHA; and ASD (Level 1).
We pair a caring, mentoring approach with small classes so teachers can individualize instruction, coach executive-function skills, and build confidence. Educational Assistant support is available in every class, ensuring students receive timely help and consistent strategies across the school day. The goal of these classes is to provide the skills to move them into our Scholars’ Hall classes.
Scholars’ Hall: A Preparatory School
Scholars’ Hall is SJSH’s alternative to the publicly funded system, designed to prepare students for whatever post-secondary path they choose—university, college, apprenticeships, or entrepreneurship. Classes are intentionally small (ideal 16 students) to maximize individual attention, robust feedback, and sustained academic challenge. The program emphasizes strong study habits, critical thinking, clear communication, and subject mastery, supported by mentoring and guidance so graduates are ready to thrive in their next step.
August HeadStart School
August HeadStart School is designed to give students, grades JK to Grade 8, a real head start on the coming school year by reviewing and re-learning the fundamental skills of reading, writing and arithmetic for the grade they just finished and then introducing the next grade concepts and skills they will be introduced to in the first several months of their new school year. Taught by many of our day-school teachers, mornings concentrate on the core subjects of Math and English to build skills and confidence, while afternoons shift to Social Studies and Science in a relaxed, summer-camp style with weekly themes. By reviewing and relearning last grade’s concepts as well as introducing the next grade’s curriculum, SJSH’s HeadStart students return to their home school with new-found confidence in their ability to achieve and be successful.